The summer of 2013, I served as a volunteer teacher in a school for Syrian refugees on the Turkish-Syrian border. During this time, I befriended many Syrians, mostly from the Idlib province, who would share with me their experiences of escaping the war in Syria.

"Seven Syrians: War Accounts from Syrian Refugees," is an attempt to present some of those stories to readers who are interested in the Syrian War, but may not have access to first-hand accounts. Each narrative is written in the first person and is displayed with portraits of the storytellers along with photographs of their new environments in Turkey. As the war continues, this is an effort to document the civilian voices that so often go unheard.